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CEGL007051 Melaleuca quinquenervia Ruderal Wet Forest

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Punktree Ruderal Wet Forest

Colloquial Name: Ruderal Punktree Wet Forest

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This association represents dense stands of Melaleuca quinquenervia that have been introduced and/or naturalized in south Florida, where this tree is not native. Many examples have very little herb layer due to suppression from lack of light.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: No Data Available

Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available

Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: No Data Available

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  FL




Confidence Level: Low

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNA

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: = Melaleuca, Melaleuca quinquenervia (Duever et al. 1986)
= Cajeput Forests (Hilsenbeck et al. 1979)

Concept Author(s): Duever et al. (1986)

Author of Description: A.S. Weakley

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 04-01-95

  • Duever, M. J., J. E. Carlson, J. F. Meeder, L. C. Duever, L. H. Gunderson, L. A. Riopelle, T. R. Alexander, R. L. Myers, and D. P. Spangler. 1986. The Big Cypress National Preserve. National Audubon Society Research Report No. 8. National Audubon Society, New York. 444 pp.
  • Hilsenbeck, C. E., R. H. Hofstetter, and T. R. Alexander. 1979. Preliminary synopsis of major plant communities in the East Everglades area: Vegetation map supplement. Unpublished document. Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department, Miami, FL.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.